Help in supporting orphans and vulnerable children in Kenya

Location: Mbita, Kenya

NISSII Christian Academy-Integrated Community Projector is a community initiative operating in Western part of Kenya. Project engages the families, communities, and partners to ensure that children enjoy good health, education for life, experience the love of God, and their neighbors and cared for, protected and participating. This is in line with our main goal of sustainable of wellbeing of the children especially the orphans and vulnerable. We exist because the children are waiting!" The orphans live with their foster families in the local community and some live with me. We have vast experience in hosting volunteers, we have hosted over 100 volunteers from different parts of the world including France, Chile, Germany, U.S.A, Spain, Italy, China, Israel, Australia, Norway and Argentina just to mention a few. We further work on sustainable livelihood programs like Agriculture and health.
There are lots of legends and memorized stories of all our cultural livings and styles from the time of our great grandparents and how they have changed with time from community story tellers. Through this they will grasp our customs and cultural behavior. The volunteers get the opportunity to freely interact with the community members, visit nearby tourist attraction sites - Runa National Park ( Home of Rhino in Southern Sahara) and visit other Islands for example Mfangano and Rusinga

Orientation to the volunteers covers

Safety , local customs and culture, a trip to the volunteers work site, available local transport options, important dates in Kenya and any other area of concern
The volunteers get exposed to the local culture ,life styles which in return builds their experiences , traditional and cultural methods of doing all activities.
The volunteers will be issued with letters of recommendation on request

Our activities expose volunteers to on hand work experience which in return builds their resumes for a favorable job competitions at both national and international levels. We need both skilled and unskilled volunteers who wish to develop their skills as they experience a new culture.

Our project dearly welcomes those with fundraising skills to help us raise funds towards the construction of our classes and buy basic needs for the children. Our projects supports orphans and vulnerable whose number has drastically increasing in our region due to HIV/AIDS pandemic and other illness related causes

Our project creates an opportunity for people from different parts of the world a relaxed environment and grantees an opportunity to showcase the unique loving and hospitable culture of the Luo community. Members are ever at stand by to ensure that the volunteers are comfortable. YOUR COMFORT IS OUR SUCCESS!!!!! .

Volunteers will also learn our organic methods of farming, they will visit and see different local fishing industries and learn our local methods of fishing, and they will learn our ways of preparing different food staffs and those with interest will gain by interacting with the community and learning our local languages that is Swahili, Luo and Suba.

Airport Pickup
If the volunteers can stay one week or longer, at your wish, we will arrange someone to Kisumu International Airport to pick you up and accompany you to come to our home. You may need to pay a small transportation fee.


WORKING ARRANGEMENT

The school schedules run from 8.00 am- 4.00 pm .Volunteers break for lunch ar 12.30 pm and resume work at 2.30 pm ,We have very flexible working arrangements for the volunteers. This allows to have time for their private work for example those who work online. The school runs from Monday to Friday. The volunteers have 2 days -weekend for personal work

LIVING ARRANGEMENT

Volunteers are offered a free home stay arrangement provided with abed,mosquito net, all bedding items,,a private room for couples, separate rooms for different sex, and free laundry services.We offer locally available food for example beans,fish,vegetables,spegeti,Ugali,well treated bottled water, beef, rice, and chapati ,We offer break fast,lunch and dinner,and free laundry services.The volunteer rooms are kept clean. The volunteers are asked to donate 5 dollars per day for meals.

WEBSITE

https://nissiichristianaca.wixsite.com/index